CONTENTS List if maps VIll List iffigures List if tables List if Prussian monarchs .xi List if Prussian heads if state .xii Preface .xiii Aboutthe contributors .xvi Introduction: Modern Prussia - continuity and change Philip G. Dwyer 1 Conservatives and the monarchy 4- The urban and rural environments 8 Religion in state and society 12 The state, the army and Prussianism 16 1. Prussia in history and historiography from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries Stefan Berger 21 Modifying and transforming Prussianism in the Kaiserreich 22 Prussian historiography in the Weimar Republic 24- Symbiosis or resistance? Prussian historiography under National Socialism 27 The history of Prussia after the end of Prussia: The GDR 29 The history of Prussia after the end of Prussia: The FRG 33 Prussian history in the reunified Germany since 1990 38 PART ONE: CONSERVATIVES AND THE MONARCHY 2. Restoration Prussia Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann .
43 Defining''Restoration'' 4-3 Restoration as the programme of a ''party'' .46 Early anti-revolutionary proclamations 4-8 A moderate king, the reform ministers and their adversaries 50 Romanticism and Restoration ideology 53 The Restoration Party gains ground 56 Hunting down the Zeitgeist 59 v .xi .xi CONT ENTS Tran sforming the military into an instrument of royal prerogative 61 Conclusion 62 3. Revolution and counter-revolution in Prussia, 1840- 50 DavidE. Barclay 66 The coming of revolution, 1840-48 67 The liberal and democratic revolutions, spring - autumn 1848 73 Counter-revolution and compromise, spring 1848 - J anuary 1850 79 Aftershocks, 1849-50 : .83 4. T he cha nging concerns of Prussian conservatism, 1830- 1914 Hermann Beck 86 The theoretical foundations of Prussian conservatism 88 The search for a new identity 93 The development of conservatism in the empire 97 PART T WO: THE UR BAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENTS 5.
The Prussian Zollverein and the bid for economic superiority Hans-J oachim Voth 109 Launchpad for take-off or precursor of unification? 110 German economic development 11 3 Prussia''s political influence 118 Prussia''s economic power 120 Conclusion 124 6. The Prussian labour movement, 1871-1 914 Dick Geary .126 The nation al context 126 Varieties of Prussian labour 129 Epilogue: Prussian labour in the Weimar Republic 14·3 7. Agrarian transform ation and right radicalism: Economics and politics in rural Pru ssia, 1830-1 947 Shelley Baranowski 146 Agricultural change and political mobilization, 1830- 1914- 147 War-making, urban priorities and the decline of agrarian influence, 1914-33 156 Unkept promises: Prussian agriculture from the T hird Reich to the occupation, 1933- 47 163 PART T HREE: RELIGI O N IN STATE AN D SOCIETY 8. Religious conflicts and Germa n national identity in Prussia, 1866-1 914· MarjorieLamberti 169 Protestant liberals and Catholics in the era of national unification ; .170 The Kulturkampf I 74 Religious cleavages and antago nisms in public life I78 The historical consequences 186 VI CONTENTS 9. Prussian Protestantism Nicholas Hope 188 A search for identity and establishment 190 A fragile new constitutional (''synodal'') church order 195 War and peace 199 PART FOUR: PRUSSIA, THE STATE AND PRUSSIANISM 10. Democratic Prussia in Weimar Germany, 1919-33 Hagen Schulze 211 The transformation of the pillars of monarchical authority 214 The demise of the Prussian state 225 11.
Prussia''s military legacy in Empire, Republic and Reich, 1871-1945 Dennis Showalter 230 A Prussian army or a German one? The imperial years 232 The Great War: From spiked helmets to steel helmets 238 Weimar and the Prussian military heritage 240 The Nazi years: Old wine in a new bottle? 244 Conclusion 251 12. Prussia, Prussianism and National Socialism, 1933-47 Brendan Simms 253 National Socialism and Prussianism 254 The National Socialist regime and Prussia 261 Prussia, Prussianism, resistance and the Allies 266 Suggestionsfirfurther reading .274 Further research possibilities 295 Index.